This weekend I’m daydreaming about lying on a beach with the sun warming my skin. ‘Warming’ being the important word in that sentence. In south-eastern Australia we’re being blasted with icy polar weather from Antarctica. It’s snowing in the mountains above 1000 metres (3280 ft). Where I live in Canberra on the Southern Tablelands, our […]

Welcome to July! How is it possible that half the year is already gone? And, we’re less than six months away from starting a new decade! In Australia, my teens are starting their winter school holiday break. Our winters in Canberra are cold, although not cold enough to have seen any snowfall this year. Many […]

Today is our last Sunday in San Antonio! The final mission, Mission Espada, was the fastest of our visits. I think there were two reasons for that: The boys were getting a little tired of missions, It was the smallest. But it had the gorgeous tree you see in the header image. There were a […]

Today we’re seeing the 4th of the 5 missions in San Antonio, Mission San Juan. What you see in the header image is just about all there was to see there. (Last week’s mission was, hands down, the biggest and most interesting.) I was hoping we might get a chance to hear the bells ring, […]

Back again for another of the lovely San Antonio Missions! Today we’re visiting our third stop – and by far the most complete – Mission San Jose. This mission still has the complete wall around the area – and the walls are more than just a wall – it’s more like a square of dwellings […]

You may not realize (I didn’t until I was looking for things to do with kids in San Antonio) that there are actually five historic missions, all within a very easy jaunt of one another. So we took the morning to drive and see each one. We started with Mission Concepcion (pictured in the header). […]

The Thursday before Mother’s Day, my family made its way to San Antonio, Texas, to bury my mother’s remains. The Saturday before Mother’s Day would have been her birthday, and we decided that would make a fitting circle. Mom and Dad have always been big genealogy buffs, and so in the course of her research, […]

Lilacs are one of my favorite spring flowers. They bloomed here a little later this year. Usually they’re in full bloom by Mother’s Day, but this year it was May Long (if you don’t know what that is, you didn’t read my Sunday Edition last week!) Do you have lilacs where you live? When do […]

Happy Victoria Day Weekend! (also titled, Happy Sunday from Canada!) Victoria Day falls on the third Monday of May and is celebrated in Canada and Scotland. Not in England, I hear, even though it honors Queen Victoria, who was born May 24, 1819. Why on earth does Canada celebrate Victoria and not the birthday of […]